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Provincial Library 
Edmonton 


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Dec 


Volume 30; Number 2 


Carbon, Alberta, Thursday, January 11, 1951 


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THE FARMERS’ EXCHANGE 


See your Midland Agent regarding Registered 
and Certified Seed. We expect good seed is 
going to be very scarce this year and farmers 


will be well advised to order early to insure 
delivery. 


DELIVER TO “MIDLAND” 


IMITE 


Save on Groceries 


Peas, 20 oz. tins 


Corn, 15 oz. tins 


Cabbage or Carrots, lb. 


Loganberries, large, 20 oz. tins, Very Special 


Wrapped Apples, Mcintosh, box 


Corned Beef, 


Large Pink grapefruit, each 


Tomato Soup, tin 


. Oranges, Texas, 344s, per dozen 


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$2.65 
... 48c 
10c 
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Groceries, Vegetables, Fish, Meats, etc. 


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\Norman Nash Rink Wins 
Local Brier Playdowns 


Norman Nash skipped his rink 
to two straight victories at the 
local curling rink on Monday and 
won the right to represent Car- 
bon in the Bast zone playdowns 
of the Macdonald Brier. The Nash 
foursome defeated Canning 9-7 in 
the first game and won from Reid 
by an 11-6 score in the second. 

Personnel of ‘the rinks was 
John Reid, Ted Schmidt, Dusty 
Poxon and Pat Poole; Norman 
Nash, Chris Thumlert, Johnny 
Buchner and Ear! Morgan; Wilf 
Skerry, Sid Cannings, Jack Barr 
and Bob Shaw. 

East zene playdowns will take 
place at Carbon Wednesday, Jan- 
uary 17, when rinks from Rocky- 
ford and Rosebud will compete 
with Carbon to determine a win- 
ner to play the West zone cham- 
pions. 

*. . . 

Chris Thumlert, Johnny Buch- 
ner, Pat Poole and Johnny Diede 
are playing in the Rockyford bon- 
spiel this week and won two 
games Monday night. A second 
Carbon rink comprising Emmett 
Foster, Robbie Marshman, Merle 
Marshman and Ray Zachariassen 
has won one and lost one. 


Mr. and Mrs. C. Diede 
Observe 45th Anniversary 


Mr. and Mrs. ©. Diede were 
honored at their home Sunday 
afternoon and evening by imme- 
diate members of the family and 
a few friend on the occasion of 
their 45th wedding anniversary. 
Entertainment consisted of two 
choruses, a recitation by Enith 
Diede and singing of the honored 
couple’s favorite song by the 
four daughters. 

Mr. and Mrs. Diede were pre- 
sented with two lovely sapphire 
rings and received the congratu- 
lations of children and frietids 
A duet was also sung by two dau- 
ghters. The honored couple then 
thanked their children & friends 
for their remembrance of the an- 
niversary. Delicious refreshments 
were served and an enjoyable day 
brought to a close with the sing- 
ing of songs and the playing of 
games. 

All members of the family were 
present and included Mr. and 
Mrs. Manuel Sayler and family, 
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Harseh and 
family, Mr. and Mrs. Art Bieb- 
rick and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. 
C. Diede and family, Mr. and Mrs. 
John Diede and family, and Mr. 


and Mrs. Cy Beingesner. 
——___9 


The Newcastle hockey team de- 
feated the Carbon sextet bya 6-3 


Sunday evening. 


——————— 


‘A rink from the Carbon branch 
!of the Canadian Legion playédd in 
the Alberta Legion playdowns at 
Three Hills Tuesday, winning 
from Three Hills and losing to 
Trochu and Huxley. The Trochu 
rink was the winner of the zone 
playoff. The visiting rinks were 
royally entertained by the Three 
Hills Legion. 

Members of the Carbon team 
were Dusty Poxon, Sid Cannings, 
Jack Brown and George Apple 
yard. 


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score in a game played at Carbon | 


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permits heat to be turned off without removing 
the plug. Cover can be removed and washed. 


Builders’ Hardware Stores Ltd. 


W. F. ROSS, Manager — Phone 3, Carbon 


( Ce __ ~ 


IN SPITE OF THE RISE IN WOOL 
Bill Braisher Can Offer You These Bargains 


Men’s Wool Combinations $5.00 
Men’s Woolen Coats $9.95 
Men’s Woolen Socks 60c 
Men’s Woolen Mitts 49c 
Boys’ Jersey Gloves “25c 

. eee | 


Here Is Your Opportunity For 


REAL SAVINGS 
Our Entire Stock Of 
Ladies’ Coats 
Is Now On Sale 


Prices Slashed for Clearance ! ! 
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SALE 


CARBON TRADING COMPANY 


Morris Switzer, prop. — Phone 18, Carbon 
SS 


SPECIAL- Vita Ray Smoothskin Lotion 
Regular $2.75 NOW $1.50 


Only a limited quantity available 


Shaw’s Drug Store 


R. J. Shaw, Phm. C. — 


Phone 24 


We have a good supply of 


Grade A Beef, Pork & Veal 


Come in and pick out your weekend roast 


HAMBURGER & HOME-MADE SAUSAGE 


Always in fresh supply 


CARBON LOCKER STORAGE 


Phone 27 Phone 27 


THE 


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CHRONICLE, CARBON, ALTA. 


A Distinguished Force 

IT IS OFTEN SAID that in other countries the figure of a scarlet- 
coated mounted policeman is looked upon as the symbol of Canada, and 
it is true that the long association of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 
with the enforcement law and order has made it famous in Canada 
and abroad. Originally known as the Royal North West Mounted Police, 
the formed to patrol the west when the population was 
widely scattered.and there was need to establish law and order among 
the white people and the Indians living there. It was at this time that 
the Mounted Policeman, with his scarlet coat and his horse became famous 


for the with which he performed his duties, which were 


often tinged with risk and adventure, 
* . . 


of 


force was first 


thoroughness 


* * 


The famous force has changed with the times. Now 
Has Changed called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, it has 
* Hy for some years policed Canada in the enforcement 
With Times of federal laws, and of provincial statutes in some 
provinces. Horses have given away to cars,” and the traditional uniform 
to plain clothes in the performance of many of the duties carried on by 
the force, but the traditions of the service have not changed and it is 
known as one of the most efficient police forces in the world. The annual 
report on the activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was issued 
recently, and although written in restrained and official language it reveals 
that there is still color and adventure in the work of the famous force. 
The report tells that in the northland, 539,000 miles were patrolled in the 
past year, 46,860 by dogsled. However, other figures showed the trend 
toward the use of modern equipment in place of the horse and dogsled. 
eo © SS. 
One airplane was added to the mechanical land, sea 
Work Covers ana air transport equipment and it was reported 
* that a helicopter is to be added, for the use of the 
Wide Range new Newfoundland division. The number of dogs 
used by the force dropped by one, and the number of horses by 17, leav- 
ing the force with 153 horses. Manpower was increased by 120, raising 
the total of uniformed members of the force to 3,489. There are also 475 
civilians and civil servants employed by the R.C.M.P. There were 43,000 
convictions in the year in cases investigated by the force, Their work 
ranged from cases dealing with murders and drug rings to the patrol of 
Arctic waters, rescues of disabled ships at sea by R.C.M.P. patrol vessels, 
and the delivery of mail in Ysolated areas. Activites in dealing with sub- 
versive elements, also part of the work of the force, were included in the 
report, but were not made public. The report brings attention to the extent 
of the activities carried on by the famous force and the many and varied 
services which its members perform in the course of their duties, 


British And Canadian 


Girls Exchange Visits 


TORONTO, — One hundred British 
and Canadian girls will exchange vis- 
its this coming summer as guests of 
W. Garfield Weston, the Canadian- 
born industrialist announced, Purpose 
of the two tours is to ‘develop closer 
understanding and friendship between 
Canada and Britain.” 

The goodwill program began two 
years ago with a tour of Canada for 
50 British boys. Last summer 50 
Canadian boys visited Britain while 
50 British boys toured Canada. 

Mr. Weston said the 50 Canadian 
girls will sail from Montreal for 
|Liverpool July 13, returning in late 
|August, Fifty British girls will tour 
central Canada during August. 

O H A In Canada girls will be chosen 
wy oa © from all 10 provinces and the Yukon 

i eI wise |and Northwest Territories. All selec- 

e ¢ @¢ |tions will be made through schools 

Sue: “Why, Mary, you're by the Canadian Education Associa- 
learning to handle this car like |tion. Average age will be 16. 

a veteran!” 

Mary: “How do you know? 
You've never seen me handle a 
veteran,” 


RELIEVES PAIN AND 


SORE THROAT | 
‘ DUETO COLDS 


Funny of 


A man, looking for work, 
offered a job in the circus, 

“All you have to do,” said the 
proprietor, “is to walk into the 
lion’s cage, offer it a lump of sug- 
ar, and come out again. The whole 
secret is to make the lion believe 
you're not afraid of him,” 

“T refuse the job,” said the man, 
his knees quaking at the thought, 
“I couldn’t be so deceitful!” 


was 


* ¢ @© @ 


A woman was asked by the Cus- 
toms official at the landing post, 
“Anything to declare, madam?” 

“No,” she replied sweetly, ‘“‘noth- 
ing”’. 


“Then, madam,” said the official, 


“am I to take it that the fur tail SS eee 
I see hanging down under your . : i ; 
coat at the back is really your | Two navvies: were having a 
wn?” 33}: meal at an eating house, One of 
- a> “eo chante them had been hacking away at 
“She and I were getting on a steak for quite a time, but 
like a house on fire until her without much success, Turning 
father came along.” | to his mate he said in a loud 
, “What happened?” | wvolce: “Tain’t the food wot does 
“Oh! He’s a fireman.” yer good 'ere, Alf; it’s the blink- 
‘ ar ot in’ exercise!” 
* ms - ~ 
Angus was displaying to his | % i 
neighbor McDonald, the second- Johnny Sophomore (at college 
hand car he'd bought. tea): May I join you, : 
ut Cackanan iin tt Mental ne | Molly Coed: Am.I coming 
4 OOKS e mm, Se a oe on 
‘ pir apart? 
Donald, “but Ah’'m thinkin’ it'll be Pe Ate ee 
costing ye a lot in petrol. | The man walked angrily into the 
“No' so bad,” replied Angus | poot repairer’s shop. “Look here,” 
proudly, “Ye ken, it’s downhill tae he said, “you advertise ‘Boots re- 
the town, and I can get a tow | paired while you wait, and you 
home most days | have had mine a week and not 
i Ae: | finished ’em yet!” Well replied the 
“Won't you be very, very | 
happy when your sentence is | 


you?” 


ove cheerfully asked a wom- 
an of a convict in prison, | 
“] dunno, ma’am, I dunno,” 
gloomily answered the man, | 
“You don’t know?” asked the = | 
woman, amazed, “Why not?” 
“I'm in for life.” 


THE TILLERS 


I'm 


tastes, 


sorry about the way the pie 
darling It must 
thing I left out.” 
Nothing you left out could make 
a pie liké this. It must be 


something you put in,” 
” “ . 7” 


be some- 


taste 


“I'm afraid someone very near 
to you is going to be disappoint- 
ed,” said the crystal gazer, 

“I'm afraid you're right,” con- 
fessed the client; “I've come out 
without any money.” 2913 


wearer A OS 


|fantryman in their ranks, 


-| OFF ALL THE FEED AND OUR. 


VENOUS BLOOD FROM. 
VENA Gave 


—Central Press Canadian, 


A view of the new and revolutionary artificial “heart-lung” de- 
veloped by scientists at the Fels Institute in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is 


seen here, 
build it, weighs only four pounds 


The device, so simple that any laboratory technician can 


and costs about $60 to build. In 


a recent test a 50-pound dog was kept alive for more than two hours 
with the device, maintaining normal breathing, blood pressure, etce., 


during the test. Surgeons found 
the Fels oxygenator. 


many uses for the device, called 


It can be used to bypass the heart and lungs 
while these organs undergo repair; 


to rest the lungs and allow drugs 


to take effect during pneumonia or other ailments; to rest the heart 
and allow it to beat empty for many days after occlusion of the vital 
organ; to save drowning victims from death and to supply oxygenated 
blood to newborn infants who fail to begin breathing sooh enough. 


ODDITIES IN 
THE NEWS 


A woman in Halstead, Essex, Eng- 
land, who mislaid her handbag at a 
salvage sale here found later that it 
had been sold. And it brought only 
three pence (about four cents.) 

¢* + ¢ 

William Heidy, of Detroit, grabbed 
what was handy to douse a fire in 
his automobile. But it burned all the 
livelier, He had emptied the contents 
of two bottles of whisky on the blaze. 
Firemen got there in time to save 
about half the car. 

* + 

The motto of the 15th infantry 
regiment in Korea is ‘can do”, 
soldiers are a little puzzled about 
what to do with a South Korean in- 


—— 


is No Can Doo, 
* * 
Farm laborer Jim Moran, of Mul- 


It took him 82 hours, but he finally 


| found it. 


+ & 

This chicken must have been me- 
chanically inclined. Owned by a gaso- 
line station operator at Lorlie, Sask., 
its gizzard yielded one half-inch nut, 
two grease nipples, one valve 


screws. 
+ + 

A soccer match was cancelled at 
Auch, France, because the captain 
of one of the teams swallowed the 
toss-up coin. Both captains were 
standing close to the referee when 
he threw the coin into the air and 
it fell into the mouth of M, Dubig- 
nac, He was rushed to~ hospital, 
where the coin was removed by oper- 


j ation, 


Census enumerators in Alaska 
had to use dog sleds, half-track ve- 


bootmender, “you're waitin’, aren’t |hicles and small planes to reach out- 


laying are 


8, 


OH, HLO, JABBER!’ “THOSE DAD- 
BLAMED MICE ARE CARRYING 


LAST TRAP JUST BROKE! 


The | _ 
| OTTAWA.—Manitoba retail stores 
|showed the highest increase of any 
His name | province in sales during the first 10 
months of this year, the bureau of 


cap, | 
one coupling an inch long and four | 


| New Glass Heart May Prove Great Life-Saver Alberta And Sask. 


Farmers’ Unions 
To Work Together 


EDMONTON.—Alberta and Sask- 
atchewan farmer’s unions will co-op- 
erate more closely in the future, par- 
ticularly in the matter of farm price 
levels, Henry G. Young, president of 
the Farmer's Union of Alberta, said. 

Mr, Young said the two uwnions 
are in compléte agreement that some- 
thing will have to be done soon re- 
garding adjustment of farm prices 
in ratio to prices in other fields. 

Mr. Young has just returned from 
the annual convention of the Sask- 
atchewan Farmers’ Union which end- 
ed Dec. 15 at Saskatoon. 

Mr. Young stated that both the 
Saskatchewan and Alberta groups 
are pressing for satisfactory settle- 
ment soon on the five year wheat 
pool, He said the federal govern- 
ment is expected to make final pay- 
ments to farmers in January. 


Limited Hunting 
Of Elk For Farmers 
In Manitoba 


WINNIPEG.—The provincial Rov- 
ernment announced that limited 
shooting of elk by farmers in the 
area surrounding Riding Mountain 
National park will be permitted Dec. 
18 to Jan. 31. 

G. W. Malaher, provincial game 
and fisheries director, said the pur- 
pose of the special open season is to 
reduce the number of “several hun- 
dred” elk which have filtered from 
their park sanctuary to forage farm 
crops in surrounding districts. A 
year ago some 1,200 elk were count- 
ed in the farm areas, 

Licences — for farmers only — will 
cost $5 and the bag limit will be one 
animal of either sex and any age. 
Mr. Malaher said there may be a 
seasor for all Manitobans later if 


|e —— — i * crop damage continues. 
Feasting On Shooting is limited to an area 
° bound on the east and north by 
Caribou Steaks C.N.R.. tracks from Rossburn junc- 
The people of Fort Chipewyan, tion to Dauphin and west to Russell, 
Alta., northern Alberta outpost j|on the west by highway 81 and on 
are feasting on caribou steaks j|the south by the C.N.R. line from 
which practically walked into the |Rossburn junction to Russell. No 
frying pay. For the first time in shooting will be allowed in the park 
the history of this settlement, | itself. 
thousands of caribou recently LNRM 690 Hi Sere ea 
moved down from the barren ean 
northern wastelands and small | 
groups ran wild through the | GEMS OF THOUGHT 
streets in their trek to new feed- 
ing grounds. Some were shot. CHILDHOOD 
Four prize animals were slaugh- A deceit or falsehood is never wise. 
tered directly rig front of the {749 much cannot be done towards 
school caretaker’s home. guarding and guiding well the ger- 
[ih gos" Sera Te athe sd PaO eee: + minating and inclining thought of 
| . chi aos ry 4 uy . 
Retail Sales Up childhood.—Mary Baker aeey 
e What the best and wisest parent 
‘In Manitoba 


| statistics revealed, 


| Manitoba sales increased 6.3 per 
|lingar, Eire, made a bet of $15 that |cent. over the same period last year, 
he could find a needle in a haystack. | while the over-all Canadian increase 


|}was 5.8 per cent. 


Increases recorded by other prov- 


inces were: British Columbia, 4.7 


5 


|times, 1.5. Sales 


|berta, 1.1 per cent. 


The dragonfly moves _ its 
|6,000 times a minute. 


{Ontario, 4.4; Quebec, 3.5; and Mari- 
in Saskatchewan 
|were down 7.7 per cent, and in Al- 


wants for his. own child that must 
the community want for all its chil- 
dren.—John Dewey. 


The training of children is.a pro- 
|fession, where we must know how to 
lose time in order to gain it. 

| —Rousseau. 


It is better tg bind your children 


j}to you by respect “and gentleness, 
than by fear.—Terence. 
Who feels injustice; who shrinks 


|before a slight; who has a sense of 
wrong so acute, and so glowing a 
gratitude for kindness, as a generous 
boy ?—~-¥fhackeray, 


The 


interests” of childhood and 


wings youth are the interests of mankind, 


| —Janes, 


A Castle For $40 Per Month 


By HENRY C. NICHOLAS 
(CPC Correspondent) 
VIENNA, Austria.—Did you ever 
dream of living, or perhaps spend- 
ing your honeymoon in a castle—a 
medieval castle with almost as many 
rooms as a hotel and situated within 

a great landed estate? 

You can now realize such a dream 
at a surprisingly small expense, You 
can rent a castle in Austria for $40 
a month, For a little more than a 
dollar a day you have the choice of 
a large number of castles situated 
in some of the most magnificent 
scenery in the world. 

Austria claims it is now the least 
expensive tourist and vacation re- 
sort in the world, To substantiate 
this claim in a dramatic way and to 
attract the tourist and his greatly 
desired dollar, it is offering for rent 
a large number of its most attractive 
castles, 

Prices do appear remarkably cheap 
to the visitor. It would almost seem 
that if you wish to enjoy low prices 
and have no housing shortage, then 
you should be the citizen of a de- 
feated rather than a victorious coun- 
try in a world. war. 

The best hotels and inns in Aus- 
tria charge only $2 a day—with 
meals! Short+of living by yourself 
in a castle, it is said to be almost 
impossible to spend more than $10 
a day here, everything included, 
even in such fashionable spas as 
Budgastein and Velden, 

Canadians and Americans accus- 
tomed to central heating and living 
in these castles this winter are apt 
to feel a little chilly. But aside from 


DRAFTY, BUT 


TELLING “srr 


Canadian Writer 


Trev uvvuuuv000uusesunancneesugnnn4444uauuui0UHUUti 


Few people, we read, really know 
how to use a telephone, Just a lot 
of wrong numbers trying to get right 
ones? 


AUETVENUCTNNSEENNTU AEN ETOATNETOTESS 


—o— 
A Vancouver man has invented a 
combination - clothes presser . and 


pocket umbrella, Handy gadget. If 

it doesn’t work as an umbrella, you 

can certainly use a clothes presser, 
—o— 

These days, says the man at the 
next desk, a news item about any 
basketball game can come under the 
heading of a tall story. 


KES ALL g 

The Ryukyu islands, we read, pro- 
duced more than $600,000 worth of 
pearl shirt buttons a year. Gosh, 
that’s even faster than a certain 
laundry we know can knock ‘em off. 

07 

In Samoa a pile of bamboo is used 
for a pillow, Sounds like a sure 
cure for over-sleeping. 


Oo 

When Zadok Dumkopf is down in 
the dumpa he now says he feels like 
a dollar and 30 cents—thanks _ to 
present prices. 

—o— 

Cyclones, we read, whirl clockwise 
below the equator and counter-clock- 
wise above it, However, the results, 
unfortunately, are the same. 

— 

Gorillas, we read, suffer from 
toothache. That probably explains 
their disposition, 


Higteenth century ladies of quality 
Were in the habit of decorating their 
high coiffures with fruit, including 
cherries, strawberries and pears, 


thi: discomfort they will be offered 
entertainment. 

Tourist officials, besides offering 
one of the loveliest countries in Eu- 
rope at targain rates, have prepared 
for the visitor a long list of special 
events, music and religious festivals, 
autumn and winter sports, and simi- 
lar attractions. 

Vienna, experiencing the greatest 
revival of music since the days of 
Johann Strauss, is preparing for a 
gay winter season. 

The opera is now open and will 
continue until the spring. The ho- 
tels, restaurants, inns and coffee- 
houses join the theatres in supply- 
ing their share of the general melody. 

Autumn and early winter are the 
perfect time for hunting. Sportsmen 
who like to try out something new 
generally enjoy hunting deer in the 
mountain forests, 

Tourists may bring as much am- 
munition into the country as they 
need for hunting. The rivers and 
streams are.said to teem with fish. 

Only two hours away from Vienna 
by car, the high Alpine ranges of 
the Tyrol provide year-tound snow 
for skiing and plenty of opportuni- 
ties for mountain climbing, summer 
and winter. The Arlberg region is 
one of the best sktcentres in Europe, 
particularly outstanding for its 
schools. 

All brands of cigarettes can be 
purchased in Austria for around 20 
cents a pack. There is no custom 
duty on articles intended for per- 
sonal use, such as typewriters, cam- 
eras, film and sporting equipment. 
There are no restrictions for motor- 
ists and gasoline is not rationed, 


SPACIOUS ... 


Thumb-Sucking Is 
Normal To Babies 


CLEVELAND, O.—An Iowa doctor 
told the American Medical Associa- 
tion that thumb-sucking was as 
normal to babies as cigarette smok- 
ing to their fathers, and: mothers 
should not try to frustrate either of 
them, 

Dr. Lee F. Hill of Des Moines said 
thumb-sucking was ‘normal behavior 
| that usually stops at four or five 
years,” ; 

“It is frustrating to the baby to 
be kept from thumb-sucking,” he 
said. “Suppose the mother ran up be- 
hind her husband and yanked the 
cigarette out of his mouth every 
time he put it in? How long do you 
think she’d have a husband?” 

WORLD’S TALLEST 

The spires of the Ulm cathedral in 
Germany, 529 feet above the street, 
are the tallest in the world. 


Common brick is red because there 
is iron in the clay, 


THE CHEAPEST COMMODITY IN THE ORIENT 


NEHRU TO HIROHITO—Accompanied by dignitaries, Emperor 


Over Million 
Spent On Liquor 
In A Day 


OTTAWA—More than $1,600,- 
000 a day was spent on liquor 
in Canada during the fiscal year 
ended March 31, 1949. 

In a report the bureau of statistics 
showed that during that year, a to- 
tal of $614,000,000—an increase of 
$42,000,000 from the previous fiscal 
year—was spent on liquor, beer and 
wine, 

The figures included purchases by 
visitors to Canada, 

“It should be remembered , , , that 
a substantial proportion of the. . « 
amounts—more than 50 per cent.— 
— was returned to the federal and pro- 
vincial governments as duties, taxes 


FROM and othe ” th i 
Hirohito, (right), of Japan pays a visit to Tokyo's famed Ueno 200 for a Cran sevente,” Sno sepeet said. 


view of the massive Indian elephant, ‘Miss Indira’. 


The big fellow was There also were figures showing 


presented to the children of Japan by India’s prime minister, Pandit |e apparent consumption of alcoholic 


Nehru.—Central Press Canadian. 


How Could The Skeleton Be His 
When He’s Still Much Alive ? 


MONTREAL—Victor Lord trium-| communicate with friends here. 


phantly proved to his friends that the 
skeleton they identified nearly four 
years ago as his wasn’t his after all 
and that he is still alive. 

Coroner Richard L. Duckett was 
convinced, too. He declared an error 
had been made in identification and 
sent the case back to police. 

Lord, a 72-year-old blacksmith and 
veteran of World War I and World 
War II, came from the bush north 
of, Pembroke, Ont., armed with docu- 
ments, He had discharge papers 
from both wars, a birth certificate 
and a Canadian Legion membership 
card, 

On January, 1947, a skeleton was 
found hanging in a little-used shed 
on Sherbrooke street east. Mrs. Rene 
D’Aoust, Lord’s landlady when he 
lived in Montreal, appeared with 
three friends at the inquest, 

They testified that as far as they 
could tell the skeleton was Lord’s 


They hadn't heard from Lord for 


some time and based their idenifica- 
tion on the stature of the skeleton 
and parts of clothing, 

A note found near the skeleton 
indicated the man had committed 
suicide and wanted his body to be 
used in the interest of science. Mrs. 
D’Aoust testified Lord had told her 
that when he died he wanted science 
to get his body. 

Officials were satisfied and closed 


“|the case, 


Lord’s reapplication for a pension 
brought him word of his “death”, 

Back in August, 1945, Lord’s wife 
died while they were living at Mrs. 
D’Aoust’s boarding house, Lord re- 
mained for a year, then decided to 
move on and “start again’. He 
turned over one insurance policy to 
Mrs, D’Aoust and another to J. A. 
Bellefieur, an undertaker, because “I 
didn’t have a soul in the world and 
I wanted to be sure I got a decent 
burial.” 

He left for Ontario without telling 
anyone, He didn’t return and didn’t 


Recovers Ring 
From Snow Drift 


MILWAUKEE.—You'd think find- 
ing a diamond ring in a snowdrift 
would pose as many problems as the 
needle in the haystack routine, 

It didn’t phase Mrs, William Dom- 
nitz of Milwaukee, She just carried 
the drift inside the house—12 bush- 
els of snow, in all—and melted it in 
the bathtub, The ring, lost by her 
father, showed up in the 12th basket- 
ful, 


Be content—but never satisfied. 


-—-Yardiey in The Baltimore Sun 


beverages and the federal taxes col- 
lected on them up to last March 31. 

In the 1948-49 fiscal year there 
was an apparent consumption of 
6,833,255 proof gallons of spirits, 
175,465,092 gallons of beer and 4,710, 
986 gallons of wine, 

In the 1949-50 fiscal year apparent 
“I went to Duff Creek, 32 miles | consumption was 6,969,000 proof gal- 
north of Pembroke, to work for a/lons of spirits, 181,442,503 gallons of 
lumber company as a blacksmith,”| beer and 4,894,649 gallons of wine. 
said Lord. Federal tax collections on the bev- 

Two years ago he remarried. Later | erages totalled $148,217,415 in 1949- 
he decided to reapply for a govern-|50 compared with $141,784,386 in 
ment pension which he had cancelled | 1948-49, 
before leaving Montreal. Net profits figures by provinces, 

“I got the shock of my life,” he | with the 1947-48 figures in brackets, 
said. “They told me I had committed | follow: 
suicide, that I hanged myself by the| Prince Edward Island, $550,720 
neck, That’s no way to die, anyway. | ($522,067); Nova Scotia $8,081,131 
I would have preferred to shoot my- | ($8,072,746); New Brunswick $6,483,- 
self. That’s a soldier’s way to die. |537 ($6,606,291); Quebec $27,457,579 

“The R.C.M.P. in¥estigated and | ($28,078,138); Ontario $38,293,602 
this is the outcome. I don’t want | ($36,807,803); Manitoba $7,291,043 
to make trouble. I just want to be | ($6,989,096); Saskatchewan $8,545,832 
returned to society officially.” ($7,920,528); Alberta $11,045,257 ($9,- 

This time Mrs. D’Aoust positively 820,587) ; and British Columbia $18, 
identified Lord as the man who had | 973,768 ($16,598,430), 
boarded at her place and signed over Newfoundland which entered con- 
his insurance policy to her. Mrs. federation last year, is not included. 
Bellefleur, the undertaker’s wife, cor- 
roborated the identification, saying WOMEN WALK MORE 
she ang her husband were acquainted |SAYS FOOT COUNCIL 
with Lord. BOSTON—Women Christmas shop- 
pers walk farther in a day than some 
men do in a week, the National Foot 
Health council said, 

Using pedometers to count the 


WATER GETTING HARDER 

MOOSE JAW, Sask.—Moose Jaw’'s 
water is getting harder. The amount 
of sodium sulphate now is four times |number of steps, the Council deter- 
as great as in 1949. Chemists say a |mined that women walk an average 
source saturated with sodium sul-/of 11 miles in a single shopping day, 
phate must have found its way into | 
the city water supply. 


You may delay but time will not. 


On The Side ¢ 2 Visuuns 


Wives often complain of what one young matron described as “the 
quiet sting of the dutiful kiss.’ Husbands are supposed to be exclusively 
guilty of routine osculation in morning farewells. It is now reported many 
wives also give out with the “duty” type of kiss in their morning farewells 
to hard-working husbands. So many, in fact, that experts on life among 
the married are commenting on it. They say this type of wife just offers 
her cheek for her departing spouse to kiss and then slams the door before 
he has reached the garden gate. This certainly is extreme cruelty to hus- 
bands. It causes a man to start the day off with his mind depressed. 
That's bad. A wife should walk to the garden gate to say good-by to 
the man of the family. She should give him a great big hug and an in- 
tense farewell kiss, And then wave at him until he disappears from view. 


The Long And The Short 


Many inquiries are received by this department as to the possibilities 
of the success of & marriage between a tall young woman and short young 
man, Consequently we do considerable research on the subject. I recently 
noted @ newspaper dispatch dealing with the somewhat stormy domestic 
life of such a couple, The wife was five feet nine inches in height, the 
husband just five feet. The wife, after one terrific argument, had her 
pint-sized spouse arrested, She said he had placed her over his knee and 
spanked her unmercifully with a large hairbrush. Howewer, by the time 
the case came to trial the lengthy wife had relented. She withdrew the 
charge, telling the court: “I still love my husband, Besides, maybe I de- 
served to be spanked.” What baffles me is how that five-foot husband 
got his tall wife over his knee, He must have used jujutsu. 


Birthdays Near Christmas 


A young woman of Manhattan complains her birthday comes on Dee, 
15, This, she says, is so close to Christmas it has an adverse effect on 
her birthday gifts. It is an unfortunate situation, Still I know a woman 
who was born on Christmas Day. She was also married on Dec, 25. So 


her birthday, wedding anniversary and Christmas gifts are all due on 
the same day. 


They Just Look Tall 
The Swiss guards of Vatican city are not all six-footers as often 
stated. The minimum height requirement for a Swiss guard is five feet 
eight inches, The majority of these guards are about that height. A Swiss 
guard must be a native of Switzerland. Six-footers are rare in that 


country, 
There's A Reason For It 

The reason the French bathing beauties wear those extremely scanty 
bathing suits is not based on a desire for excessive figure revealing. Most 
French. girls have short legs. When their swimsuits are hiked up the 
side it makes their legs look longer. So claims Fred Cole, bathing suit 
expert, 

Dust And Stay Streamlined 

Doing housework in energetic fashion is an excellent way for @ female 
to streamline her figure. That's what has long been claimed by physical 
culture experts, In Paris, 10 somewhat plump women organized a “dust 
and HS fit society”. When dusting their houses they put a thick cloth 
pad oW one foot and move about the rooms rapidly, usually to music. 
Once a week the “dust and get fit society” meets at a member's house 
and give it a real good dusting. All 10 members move energetically around 
dusting the various rooms. They have all recaptured their schoolgirl 
figures, 

Women In Stock Market 

More women than ever are reported speculating in stocks. The wildest 
speculators are said to be the wives of doctors. It seems the matrimonial 
mates of the medicos have more money to speculate with because the 

0 


ety oll physician pays little attention what his wife spends. He is 
too absorbed in his practices 2913 


THE 


CHRONICLE, CARBON, 


ALTA, 


Earl Of Essex 
On Honeymoon, 
But Not Married 


xk*x*k 
. 


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CANADIAN SAILORS IN NEW YORK—Crew members of the Cana- 
dian frigate La Hulloise stand at attention as Lieut. Commander Philip 
Kelsey, (left, on gangplank), is piped aboard the vessel in New York, to 
extend greetings of Rear Admiral W, S. Delaney, Third Naval District 
commandant. Lieyt. Commander T, C. Pullen_of the La Hulloise stands 
at the bottom of the gangplank to return Kelsey's salute, Moored in 
background is the Canadian frigate Swansea, which, with the La Hulloise, 
arrived in New York on an officers’ training cruise from Halifax. Cmdr. 
Kelsey is director of welfare for the Third Naval District. 


IT LOOKS LIKE BUT ISN’T—Even though signed by baseball player 


Joe DiMaggio himself and with “1000” spread all over it, this impressive- 
looking Korean banknote is less impressive than it looks. Sent back to 
Canada by a member of the Special Force in Korea, the banknote is a 1000 
Won, and is worth exactly 25 cents. 


ON HONEYMOON, BUT NOT MARRIED—When the Earl of Essex, 
scion of one of England's most prominent families, got a waiver from a 
judge at Tacoma, Washington, allowing them to be married without the 
customary three-day delay, he assumed he was already married and set 
out on his honeymoon, Then he found out that he wasn’t married, and he 
and his wife, formerly Miss Mildred Carlson, 37, of New York, had to 
round up a couple of witnesses in a trailer camp near Tacoma to have the 
ceremony performed,—Central Press Canadian. 


SUSPECTS COLLECTED IN DETROIT-WINDSOR — In sweeping 
gaming raids in two cities, Detroit and Windsor, Ontario police placed 
under arrest more than 100 gambling suspects including the alleged ring- 
leaders of the multi-million dollar a year syndicate, The raid was made | 
possible by the close co-operation of the police of the two cities. Held 
for questioning in Detroit were: Left to right, Frank Licini, Mike Sinutko, 
Louis Snitcher, Bert Speir, Raymond Schultz, Ralph Goury, Sam Smiler, | 
Philip Hockey and Phil Wohl, The raid was staged when investigators 
learned much of the racing news reaching Detroit bookmakers came from | 
across the Canadian border,—Central Press Canadian, 2913! 


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News In Pictures World 


Cold Weather 
Plays Havoc 
On Texas Cattle 


MM 


PRAY. TO HAVE HOMES SAVED—Residents of the village of Milo, built on the slopes of Mt. Etna, Sicily, 


pray before a statue of the Madonna to save their homes from the flow of lava from the erupting volcano, 
carried the statue from the village church right up to t” » of the advancing lava 


They 


(background). Their 


prayers appeared fo be answered, Dec. 10,.when the ficw of lava changed its course and lessened the threat, 


Etna was in eruption, Dec. 11, for the 16th day. e Z 


Penguin's Cousin 


Thousands of  fish-eating birds 
known as the Brunnich’s Murre, full 
cousin of the Puffin, appeared in the 
Montreal area after recent high 
winds, The birds, bred in the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence are marine birds 
and cannot take off from land. Dan 


|Ryan, Sr., president of the Verdun 


and District Sportsman’s Association, 


jis making a personal investigation 


to see if the birds starved to death 
or moved on to the Great Lakes, If 
they are found, he will see what can 


{be done to ship them back to the 


gulf. 


Central Press Canadian, 

PRESS SECRETARY —, Appoint- 
ment of Joseph H. Short, Jr.,.as press 
secretagy to President Truman has 
been announced, He succeeds tem- 
porary secretary Stephen Early who 
filled the vacancy caused by the 
death of Charles G. Ross, for years 
one of Truman's closest friends. 


| 


t 


THE “OVERSEAS CLUB” of the Canadian Red Cross Corp has begun 
a new project—that of providing machines*to project reading material on 
the ceiling for the entertainment and education of patients forced to spend 
long periods of time in bed, The photo above shows the projector during 
operation. To turn the page the bed-ridden patient has to press a button 
which is held in her hand, 


ee 
Central Press Canadian, 
AFTERMATH OF TEXAS COLD WAVE — A cow is seen standing 
mournfully over the carcass of her calf, frozen to death in the cold wave 
that recently engulfed the Texas Panhandle as winter blew its frigid breath 
over great areas of the U.S. The scene is a ranch near Silverton, 


Thursday, January 11, 1951 The Carbon Chronicle, Carbon, Alberta 
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS | Mr. Gordon Regamble of Banff , Weekend visiting relatives in 
OF LOCAL INTEREST is visiting at the home of Mr.|Carbon. 

and Mrs. Jim Cooper. | 


Francis Kaugiimin enter tained | —— Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ohlhauser 
a few of her friends Friday on| Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nadasdi and|and son were Tuesday evening 
the occasion of her 8th birthday. | family of East Coulee spent the ! visitors at Drumheller. 


‘Hard Core’ of Refugees Begins to Soften 


A =. ek “ 
Among the refugees living in camps operated in offered homes by a Roman Catholic order in 
Europe by the fnlernational Refugee Organiza- Trance, talks to a French priest about the new 
tion (FRO), a United Nations Specialized Agency, life ahead. At the right, a blind refugee (left) 
are some 25,000 old and sick persons, the “hard discusses the prospect of a new life in Norway, 
core” which has the greatest difficulty finding where 100 sightless persons and an equal number 
new homes. In recent months, however, homes of their families have been accepted. With him is 
have been provided for seme of them. In the a camp official of the International Refugee Organ- 
left hand phote, an aged refugee, one of 980 ization (center) and a Norwegian representative. 


Government ,. Business Is Your Business 


2 eae oR 


Our way of life leads us to believe that some measure of comfort, security and con- 
tentment is a natural right, whether we are employable or not, whether we are 
approaching the end of a useful life, whether an orphan, widow or blind. 


Your Department of Welfare through the branches outlined below, is constantly trying 
to improve the services and benefits rendered, to achieve the best possible social 
democracy. 


. ; h 

OLD AGE PENSIONS: First introduced in Proved foster Homes. where they, may 
1929, the maximum old age pension now pay: up as members of a family group, there- 
able in Alberta under dominion-provincial by giving them the opportunity of later 
agreement ¥en. In acition, ane eataee becoming permanent members of the 
makes a supplementary allowance o per . : 

month to a apeslenaes of Alberta residing in family through legal adoption. 

the three western provinces and provides hos- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE: The council of 
pital, medical, dental and optical services free | every municipality is authorized to make 
to all pensioners and dependents. Pensions provision for the maintenance or partial 
are paid to the blind at 2! years of age. maintenance of its indigent -residents 


: wes 
MOTHERS’ ALLOWANCES: Aid is provided 2nd for their care and treatment wher 
by this Branch to needy widows, wives of per- G15 ace PENSIONS: 

sons committed to a mental hospital, and to ; 

women who have been deserted; who have 9g 

children under the age of 16 years, or under 85 
the age of 1& years if attending school and 7 
making satisfactory progress. Hospitalization 


| 
| 
and treatment services for all recipients and - 1 DD = 
dependents are provided by the province free. ae 
control of the Chi!d Welfare Commission. It is 1949-50 


SNA QD 
MILLIONS OF 


CHILD WELFARE: All children who become - 7 
1939-40 MB 1944-45 i 


wards of the Government by Court Order, or 

by Agreement or Indenture, come under the 
| the policy of the Commission to have such Pensioners’ Hospitalization 61.038,000 
children placed as soon as possible in ap- Mothers’ Allowance 064.000 
Child Welfare 440,000 


Government of the Province of Alberta 


DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE 


HON. DR, W. W. CROSS, A. H. MILLER, 


Minister Deputy Minister 


No. 3 Welfare, 3x10. 


4 aan re ‘The Carbon Chronicle 
ama 


Published Every Thursday at 
| CARBON, ALBERTA 
| $2.00 a Year in Canada; $2.50 in US. 


Dr. F. J). Greaney, 


Director, 

Line Revaten Fate, Service, | W. SKERRY, 
Winnipeg, Manitoba | 

sponsored by ithe following companies: | Editor and Publisher 


Federal, Alberta Pacific, Pioneer, Western, | 
Canadian Consolidated, Paterson, McCabe H = ™ 
Parrish & Heimbecker, Inter-Ocean, Inde | 
dendent, Ellison Milling, Canada West 
| tobin Hood and Quaker Oats 


Coming E 
Effect of Frost on Germination | oming vents 


The following germination results 
we presented with the hope that | Junior hockey game Sunday 
hay P answer . re. ‘ 
they may help to answer the ques- | afternoon, January 14, at 2. p.m. 
| fon so many prairie farmers are la” » 

isking this fall. Will seed from |Central High school, Calgary ver 
rozeu grain crops germinate satis- |sus Carbon. 


ete i 


Pg 290 Saving. hi cori | A Home and School Associa- 

| rmination te on a farge number tion meeting will be held in the 

| Oe una ain ri ne ; debh Miah ‘t. |Carbon School Tuesday, January 
istrict Pe atiat ¢ ain » |16, at8 p.m. 

| nd Alberta \ u 1 ( h | 

esults is given in’ the following Legion meetingin the Legion 
table 


| . | Hall Monday evening, January 


pide AR |15. New officers will be installed 
| - jat this meeting. 
| | 
| Wheat... 609 43 is 6 to 98 | e ‘oy 
Oats 218 57 ¢ 58 2 to 97 [The Drumheller Health Unit 
Barley . 258 42 67 6to | | nl 
: will hold a Well Baby and Pre- 
Of t 600 wh W ave je ‘indus nr . 
eed the of : Li nade ie have | school clinicin the United Church 
were visibly affected by frost. Many |hall on Monday, February 5th, 
| of the frosted wheat samples ger- | from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. 
minated vigorously, but in 19° of | <cimnataiensoene 
them the geri tion was below 5 ree . ‘ 
LS ‘i ; | Rev. Jacob G. Rott will conduct 
10%. \ioreover, s« 1 nples r : a p 
germinated less than 25% : 'morning services at Zion Baptist 
A high pereenteze of the seed |Church and evening services at 
ay ples of ¢ yr t 1 : i 5 7 
Baty ea co? , ..) |Carbon Baptist Church Sunday, 
from this vear's crop, 54 ind 42% | .- 
respectively, w } lbv frost. |January 14. 
| Although many of the frosted | 
| samples of both oats and barley The Carbon Curling Club's an- 
germinated strongly, as high as 95% 


n some cases, germination in 69% |24al bonspiel will be held from 
of the oat samples, and in 539 of | February 12 to 16. A record entry 


she havin semi : ae | bP 
| th barley amples, was below the |jg expected. 
75% level, with many of the frosted | 


| 
oat and barley samples germinating | - 
below 10%. —Have you had any visitors dur 
Conclusions. From the germina- | ing the past week? Have you been 
tion tests completed so far this fall ) host to any of the local organiza- 
it is clear that frost damage to seed | tions? We would appreciate hav 
| cane cannot ap dogg ing these news items and stories 
| Sy visible signs or ellects. ¢ | for publication. Send them in or 
obvious and clear fact is that no , ~ 
yee j z 1 bring them to the Carbon Chron 
farmer can afford to take a chance °. ay 
on his frosted seed germinating satis- ‘cle office. 
factorily. Every farmer can save 


| ats 

| himself cor erable worry, and per- 

| haps the necessity of buying a | CHRIST CHURCH, CARBON 

| seed, by having his seed tested for —_—___ 

| germination SUNDAY SERVICES 

| Free Te Available Free ger : 
mination tests are offered by Agents | [St Sunday of the Month: Holy 
of the Line Elevator Companies Communion, 11:00 a.m. 


listed above. Don’t wait, get this | 2nd, 3rd and 4th 
} important job done this fall. Be song, 7.30 p.m. 
| prepared to plant only clean, high- — - pape ta . 

germinating i in 1951. ith Sunday: Evensong, 3:00 p.m. 


| REV. J. W. WAY, Vicar 


Sundays: Even 


* LPACT. 
WILL YOUR FAOSTED GRAIN GERMINATE ? 
Samples submitted NOW to Pioneer Agents will be germinated 
by our fully equipped laboratory, 
FREE OF CHARGE, 
| and in ample time for you to make other arrangements to 
replace your seed grain if necessary. 

See Our Agent Regarding Your Coa! Requirements for the 
Coming Winter. 


ve IT PAYS TO PULL TO THE PIONEER 


ge DO YOU NEED g 


Letterheads 
| Billheads 


Statements 
Bring Your Orders To 


The Carbon Chronicle 


THE CHRONICLE, 


CARBON, 


ALTA, 


World 
Happenings 


Briefly Told 


Turkey will issue a special postage 
stamp in honor of her brigade in 
Korea, Ankara radio announced. 


? 


Hungary 
training for 


has ordered military 
university students to 


equip them as “platoon commanders |, 


and military experts.” 


A Canterbury firm is offering a 
gold watch to the owner of the best 
beard grown for the local celebra- 
tions of the 1951 Festival of Britain. 


Stolen; the parish pump. Someone 
pinched the century-old relic in Ham- 
bleton, England, presumably for its 
lead content, which can be sold for 
junk. 


Vancouver police said children 
playing in a lane found a glass jar 
containing $1,700 worth of narcotics. 
The drugs were turned over to the 
R.C.M.P. 


During the recent ‘blizzard in 
Cleveland some snow shovelers got 
up to-50 bucks for clearing a drive- 
way. Who'd ever thought there was 
buried treasure in a snow flake! 

Travelling in specially designed 
crates aboard an ocean liner, 
geese and ducks recently “migrated” 
from Alaska to Scotland. The birds 


are part of a collection being estab- | 


lished on the island of Mull. 

Bones of an ancient monster un- 
earthed in Alberta in 1913 now are 
on display at the University of Brit- 
ish Columbia. The hooded, duck- 
bited dinosaur ‘“‘lambeosaurus” is 


known around the campus as “Old| 
Dinny”. 


| STANDARD BRIDGE | 


By M. Harrison-Gray 
Dealer: South 
North-South game 


South was just short of a ¢ 
Two No-Trumps bid on this 
hand from a duplicate pairs 
contest -and opened One 
Heart, rebigding Three No- 
Trumps over North’s single 
raise. At most tables North 
returned to Four Hearts, 
although he might have 
reasoned that the nine-trick 
contract was more likely to 
succeed. South in each case 
was held to 9 tricks. 

A Spade, Diamond or Club 
lead presents South with 
Three No-Trumps. At one 
table. howeyer, West made 
the “safe” lead of ¥10 and 
played well in refusing to 
take South’s @K at trick 4%. 
Declarer cashed t'vo more 
Hearts and led Diamonds 
again; this gave West three 
tricks. but he now had to 
lead a black suit. The con- 
tract fails if South is in 
hurry to cash all the Hearts. 


British Columbia 
Has Good Year 


VANCOUVER, = It has 
prosperous year for most of British 
Columbia's basic industries. 

A survey showed all-time highs 
indicated in practically all phases of 
economic development during 1950. 

Lumber, mining, fishing and agri- 
culture—on which depend the liveli- 
hood of thousands of workers and 
their families—show an 
dollar production of $709,000,000, 
1949 it was $689,429,728. 

Agriculture was the lone basic in- 
dustry to slip during the year, due 
to a bad winter which caused dam- 
age of millions in the orchards, The 
dollar value is estimated at $131,000,- 
000 compared with $139,000,000 last 
year, 


For the other industries there were | 


gains, Forestry production is valued 
at $380,000,000 compared with a 1949 
total of $360,000,000; mining $135,- 
000,000 against $133,012,968 and fish- 
eries $63,000,000 compared with $56,- 
456,260 last year. 

Retail sales are expected to total 
more than $820,000000 as against 
$768,250,000 in 1949, 

Other indicators of prosperity, in- 
cluding bank clearings, electric pow- 
er consumption, life insurance sales, 
and gasoline consumption all struck 
higher levels. 

Tourists poured millions into the 
province, Americans coming into 
B.C. spent approximately $33,000,000 
compared with $30,609,000 in 1949. 
And, with visitors from other world 
centres, the total may reach $50,000,- 
ono. 2913 


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been a} 


estimated | 
In 


: be at ; 
Golden crisp chicken, cooked in butter, flavored with thyme and 
onion, and served with peas and sweet potatoes, is something special 
for family and guests, 
Butter Crisp Chicken | ing in a heavy skillet to make a layer 
One 2 to 3 lb. frying chicken, salt, of fat about 14 inch deep. Place 


3 
| Pepper, 1 cup flour, 1 tsp. paprika, | chicken in hot fat and brown on both 
butter, shortening, thyme, thin onion | Sides, Place chicken, 1 layer deep in 
| rings. | Shallow baking pans. Sprinkle with 
Draw chicken and cut into serving | thyme and onion rings. Pour melted 
|pieces. Rinse in cold water and/| butter and shortening over chicken. 
jdrain. Put salt, pepper, flour and|Bake in a moderate oven 
paprika in a bag, shake 3 or 4 pieces | grees F.) until tender, about 25 to 
;of chicken in the bag until well coat- |30 minutes. Baste with melted but- 
ed. Heat enough butter and shorten- | ter after 15 minutes of baking. 


NAME REGIONAL DIRECTORS (SENDS APPLES TO XOREA 
'FOR PRAIRIES AND B.C. FOR $24; COST 15c THERE 
OTTAWA.—The post office depart- :Us,GNAM, Northeast Korea.—A 
|ment announced the appointments of YOUng American GI struggled back 
regional directors for the prairies | t° his billet with a huge Christmas 
land the British Columbia region. package. 
F. E. Jolliffe of Ottawa becomes 
regional director of the prairies re-| : , 
gion with headquarters in Winnipeg. “ eal a Ero of tomika aes 
He succeeds George A. Boyle, who! 145 cents, 
has been appointed regional director 
of the British Columbia region. 


him by air, 


Initiative is originality in motion. 


By WILLIAM 
FERGUSON 


THIS CURIOUS WORLD 


(N CHINA, 
MILLIONS 
OF PEOPLE 
HAVE LIVED 
FY FOR CENTURIES 
Td ON SCIL THAT 
Ee) CAME FROM 


MOUNTAINS 
OF 
. TIBET. 


R. 1946 BY NEA SERVICE, INC, 
T. M, REQ 1) & PAT, OFF. 


2 
“A BALL PLAYER CAN STRIKE OL'™ 
WITHOUT STRIKING,” Says 
MRS. GORDON HILL, 
Seroe, LAaho. 


TEMPERATURE 
CAN BE ESTIMATED BY 
COUNTING THE NUMBER OF 
TIMES A CRICIKET CHIRPS 
PER MINUTE. 


VIRGIL 


| “NOT ONLY ARE You AND YOU'RE TO 

} SIT RIGHT THERE 

| FOR THE REST 
OF THE 


AFTERNOON £ 


GOING TO BE PUNISHED 

BUT We'LL TELL 

ALL YOUR LITTLE 

} FRIENDS WHY! Pa) 


ROSEMARY LOANED ME HER 
CRAYONS TODAY. AND SHE 


GAVE ME A COOKIE OUT 
OF HER LUNCH/ ie 


r SHE'S 
SURE THE 


His mother paid $24 to ship it to| 


School Children 
Of Morris, Man., 
Receive Books 


WINNIPEG. — New testimony of 
the generous heart of Great Britain 
and of its gratitude to Canada, felt 
even by the very young, came to 
Winnipeg recently. A shipment of 
Children's books sent by the Collins 
Magazine arrived to re-stock the 
flood-swept library of the school at 
Morris, Man, 

Instead of the 500 volumes Morris 
school's limited library needed, there 
came 2,500 books, 

The gift was directed to Mrs. R. 


F, 
ant-Governor of Manitoba, by Miss 
Laura Grenfell, editor of the maga- 
zine, and a personal friend, who had 
visited Winnipeg. 
Miss Grenfell published two small 
paragraphs about the plight of Mor- 
ris school children who were bereft 
of books because of the Red River 


PLACE OF ITS OWN 
ST. JOHN'S, Nfid.—Newfoundland 
jhas a place of its own in Saskatche- 


wan. Premier Smallwood has been 
jinformed that an island in Lake 
|Amisk has been officially named 


}pears under its new name on 
of the area, 


maps 


NEW CANADA STAMP 
OTTAWA. — A new stamp issue 
| will be issued Feb. 1 to give recogni- 
jtion to Canada’s commercial fishery 
|resources, It will be a $1 postage 
stamp, depicting a typical fisherman 
hauling in his net in an open boat. 


Gertrude means “spear maid’, 


MeWilliams, wife of the Lieuten- | 


In a recent issue, | 


flood. She was amazed to find within 
a few days books pouring into the | 
magazine offices from British chil- 
dren, 


|“‘Newfoundland Island” and now ap-| 
(350 de-| | 


KITCHEN MEDITATIONS 
By JANE DALE 


WHEN PA WAS A BOY; HIS 
FIRST PAIR OF LONG PANTS 


Pa said that I was old enough to 
have a brand new suit 

With a pair of trousers which reach- 
ed down to my boot. 

|I was growing much too tall to wear 
knickers just to my knee 

With a jacket which always seemed 

} much too small for me. 

| Of course I had to have a tie—like 

dad's with polka dots, 

| And a shirt with starched stiff col- 

| Jar, and socks with matching dots, 

My tousled hair was cut and combed, 
then oiled to stay in place. 

1 stole a look perchance to 
beard upon my face. 

| My sister giggled right out loud and 
made a rude remark; 

My father looked on proud as punch 
—he thought it quite a lark. 

|But mother sat so tall and _ still,” 

| somehow she looked quite sad, 

| She seemed as thought she was loath 

to say goodbye to her carefree Jad. 

| She held the wornout knickers close 

and dried a vagrant tear, 

|Then said, “that just fits you 

| You're a man now, Jimmie dear 


see a 


fine. 


” 


} Seenseninetnaainiin _ 
Maps during the Middle 
showed the geographic location of 
|Paradise on earth. It was put at 
the top of the map and usually con- 
tained a picture of Eden. 


Ages 


ew ee 


‘| Weekly Tip 


PREVENT RUST 
To prevent the formation 
rust on nailheads that pro- 
trude through = thin 
plastic, coat them 
| with a touch 
of shellac. 


| 

X—X 
HORIZONTAL 
1 Aeriform 
fluid 

Upward slope 
To lament 
Whitney 
inventor 
To deciare 
positively 
Girl's name 
Comsumed 
Voluble 
Knave 

‘nd no more 


Latin for 
“and” 
Sward 
Confabulation 
Used to be 
To urge ime 
portunately 
Tale 

Man's 
nickname 
To weaken 
Vehicle 
Symbol for 
iridium 
Whey of milk 
Owing 
Bother 
Wampum 
Cover 
Comparative 
suffix 
Object 
Smooth and 
glossy 

To have re- 
terence 

Inlet 
Prejudice 
Siciilan 
volcano 

To prevarl- 
cate 
Tendency 

To lease 
Termination 


VERTICAL 
Cogwheel 
Female sing. 
ing. voice 
Besets with 
armed forces 
Fit of fury 
Yellow bugle 
Homily 


to dine 
Stop! 

Dry 
Beginner 
Carnivorous 
insect 

To the shel- 
tered side 
Water 
barrier 

To make pe- 
tition to 

To propose 
tentatively 
Burgeon 
Sun god 

To distend 
Fit for 
plowing 
Subsequently 
Colloquial: 
elevated 
rallway 
Conjunction 
44 Small insect 
45 Son of Adam 
46 Watched 


Was mistaken 

Chooses 

Artificial 

language 

Oxilke 

antelope 

11 Possesses 

17 City in 
Chaldea 

19 '.ow note 


Senxeen 4 Ne 


41 


~y 
co 


43 


VIRGIL? 


WILL YOU 


PLEASE 


TAKE OFF 


OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE 


47 Yarn tor the 
48 Dessert 


49 Shallow 
container 
60 Tavern 


warp 


Answer To Last Week’s Puzzle 


PR] tii) 1D] 


By Len Kleis 


H il pumisHeO 
FOR BEING 


Too SASSY 


ANYWAY... 
SHE'S THE 


SECOND 


Enough Lumber In One Tree 
To Build 20 Five-Roo 


3 


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a 


DP 


a* Re x 
These huge sequoia logs are ready for shipment to the lumber mill. 


By MARK FINLEY (Julius Caesar); yes, 
(CPC Correspondent) the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. 
SPRINGVILLE, Cal. — The whine| Almost 450 of the sequoia gian 
of cross-cut saws and bite of double- 
bitted axes into the hearts of some 
of California's mightiest redwood 
trees have shocked and alarmed the 
entire state as giant sequoias fall to 
destruction in a urique lumbering op- 
eration a few hundred yards outside 
Sequoia National park boundaries 
near here, 


x 


of them might be 
struction if the 

States government wishes to acqui 
them for park purposes. 


saved from d 


ready have been cut, with prospec 
of another two million to go befo 


Some single: trees contain enough | the whizzing mill blades soon. 


lumber for 20 five-room houses, ac- 
cording to Pat McDonald, boss of the 
loggers who carry on their tasks 
while some indignant citizens express 
dismay that the trees are being cut. 

Only two species of the tree per- 
both on the west side of the 
Sierra Nevadas in California, 


In the “Cemetery of the 16|2ny of the double or 


the ae oy hsb ge y rgd (SF We leave them in their beaut 
feet URC a0 LOS) PARC § ; | in the places where the oth 


; eae _ | But 

cats My aie pee ace re ripe trees are taken out, the litt 

incessant effort of modern machinery, new growth can get started, 
Monarchs that were saplings a 4 ; 

millenium before Julius Caesar con- Otherwise, 

quered Gaul are attacked by three- 

man crews, which operate gasoline- 


}to the scarred earth to be cut in 


| 


}of the company which 
| it. 

ame | 
| Steel. 


ike any i ” 
apis like any other crop, 


Giants” should be harvested. 


there never 


the thick mat at the base of the b 


driven 12-foot chain saws. : 
The first step is to cut holes | 07s pesca iy 
straight into ‘the base of the tree |cut and the rains wash away the | asset 
and insert long boards which pro-|4ebris, then a whole new crop com 
anc ser g F: s o a 
along. 
trude outward and provide standing |° ong 


room for workmen 


re harp saws bite toward the woods 100 feet high and thicker the 
AS e sné saws B V 


|a man’s body, that have grown t 


tree’s heart hour after hour; wedges 
are inserted and the exact spot is A fi 

z ree 870. 
chosen for the tree to fall. Slowly | logged in 187 ‘ 
the giant begins to totter and creak, 


then all is over in one awful crash | SMILE OF THE WEEK 


No time can be wasted on sentiment. | 


The crews immediately begin saw- Sandy happened upon  fellow-Scot highest scorer, He had five goals A “repeater” pill has been develop- 
ing the ancient trunk into mill-length | lying in the rogd after a motor crash. | ang seven assists for 12 points on |@4 for hay fever sufferers, An outer 
logs. \*Did nae oné see ye?” he asked. December 8 s layer acts immediately the tablet is | 

Pr sence of the small forest beyond “No.” “Well, I’m insured, too, Wu'd . swallowed; an inner barrier dissolves 


the protective forest 
been known for many 
had beer thought they | 
sible for lumbering. However, @ road |P 
vas hacked through the dense un- 
growth and heavy machinery | 
ed in 


ractors 


preserve has 
years but it 
were inacces- 


The chewing gum industry dat 
ack to 1860, 


now snake logs down) 
to a loading area where | 
them to waiting 
and trailers, With brake 
smoking for the torturous 
n journey, the conveyances 
arrive at a mill storage yard and 
quickly return for more, | 

Costs are broken down as follows: | 
Cost of cutting down a tree is $300; 
the long ride to the mill, $1,700; 
$700 for sawing and another $1,900 
for hauling. 

Conservationists study the rings of 


opes 
I 


boom lifts 


the broken giants, calculating @ 
tree's age, back, to say, 1492, (Col- 
umbus’ discovery of America); 1066 
A.D, (the Norman conquest); 45 B.C, 


Clean your combs and brushes by 
allowing them to stand for 10 min- 
utes in sudsy detergent water, Extra- 
dirty combs may require further | 
cleansing with a stiff-bristled nail | 
brush, | 


To add a decorator’s touch to your 
bedroom, try dyeing your white bed 
sheets the color of your choice, Or 
leave the sheets white, and dye the 
pillowcases for contrast. 


Wash diningroom furniture occa- 
sionally. Do a light job with suds. 
Rinse at once and dry well, then 


apply more polish. 

Serve cabbage raw often because 
@ generous portion of cole slaw pro~- 
vides a fair amount of necessary 
vitamin C, When you cook cabbage 


most of its vitamin C is destroyed.|evacuated recently in spite of the enemy’s stiff resistance.—Central Press Canadian, 


even back to} 
are in the lumbering area but the 
}owners believe that more than half 
state of United 


More than 
five million board feet of lumber al- 


While nature's oldest -children fall 
mill lengths, Ben Steel, an executive 
is handling 
|the operation, is philosophical about 
says 
“The trees get ‘ripe’ and they 


We don’t cut 
triple-trunk 


Would be 
any new sequoias because the baby 
trees cannot push their way through 


But when the big ones are|real good holler guy is a valuable 


To illustrate this, he points to red- | 


lon part of the property. which was |tips the scales at 142 pounds. 


ye mind if I lay down beside ye?” 


i 
form \ 


NHL. Sport Notes 


pie ek 


A New Brother Act In N.H.L. 

The Quackenbush brothers, Bill and 
Max, form the newest brother act to 
come into the National Hockey 
League. When the 22-year-old Max 


Death Removed Several Noted 
Canadian Political Figures 


joined older brother Bill on the de- mfg oma somthin. 

fense of the Boston Bruins recently, Death removed many notable Canadian political figures dur- 
it marked the first brother defense |ing 1950. Former Prime Minister Mackenzie King died at 75 on 
combination to play together since | July 22. The great Liberal leader, whose 21-year tenure of office 
Neil and Mac Colville played on the | set a Comimonweglth record, died quietly at his summer home in 
blueline for New York Rangers at| nearby Kingsmere after a period of semi+invalidism. With him 


the start of .the 1946-47 season, al-| qj 
though the Colvilies didn't finish the rea an era éhat stretched back over three decades of Canadian 
political history. 


season as a defense team. The Bruins 
won two games in as many nights| The former Prime Minister had re- |from which he had suffered for sev- 
after Max joined the team, tired from the political scene before |eral years, Before his death, he was 
Max teamed on defense with 28-| the 1949 general election, He was/Canadian chairman of the Interna- 
year-old Bill, only defenseman in his- honored with a state fufheral in the | tional Joint Commission, 
tory to win the Lady Byng Trophy, Capital and was buried beside his| Five senators and four members of 
in an exhibition game between De- father and mother in Toronto’s|the House of Commons, or former 
troit and Omaha about three years Mount Pleasant Cemetery. members, died during the year. 
ago. That was the only time the Two of Mr, King’s former cabinet! The senators were Charles Ballan- 
two brothers had ever played hockey colleagues also died during the year. | tyne, Progressive Conservative from 
together, The younger Quackenbush One was big, jovial Humphrey | Quebec; George Burpee Jones, Pro- 
is taller, darker and rougher than Mitchell, labor minister, who died 10 | gressive Conservative from New 
Bill, Bill acts as the spokesman for days after Mr. King in an Ottawa | Brunswick; J. Arthur Lesage, Lib- 
the act. “As I remember Max he/|ospital where he had gone for a|eral from Quebec; Antoine J. Leger, 
was a rough player with a temper routine checkup,’ He had been as- | Progressive Conservative from New 
to go with it, but he tells me he has sociated with Mr, King in the Cabinet | Brunswick, and Edouard St. Pere, 
curbed the temper somewhat since I since 1941, He was buried in Ottawa | Liberal from Quebec,  _ 
saw him play last.” after a state funeral, The Commoners were Gleason Bel- 
The last brother combination to| , 40m. James Allison Glen, one-time |zile, Liberal member for Rimousit 
play for Boston before the Quacken- Speaker of the Commons who wasjand parliamentary assistant to Fi- 
bush freres was the Jackson brothers, Resources Minister from 1945 to 1948, | nance Minister Abbott; T. L. Church, 
Harvey and Art, The Jacksons play- died in June from a heart ailment |veteran Progressive Consérvative 
member for Toronto Broadview, and 


ed for the Bruins in 1941-42, 1942-43 
and 1943-44, Maurice Hartt, Liberal member for 

. : Montreal Cartier, 
Chicago Corners Italian Players John R. MacNicol, the globe-trot- 

There are four players in the Na- ting former Progressive Conservative 
| tional Hockey League this season of member for Toronto Davenport, who 
|Italian parentage, and three of these was defeated in the 1949 federal elec- 
four players are on the roster of the Some friends of ours constantly |tion, died in June, 
Chicago Black Hawks. The three|complain about the miserable head| ~Death also struck at the Capital's 
hockeyists on the Black Hawks | colds they get during the winter |diplomatic ranks, Laurence Stein- 
whose ancestors hailed from sunny | season. hardt, United States ambassador to 
Italy are Bep Guidolin, Pete Babando| we pring up this distasteful sub- | Canada, was killed March 28 when 
and Lee Fogolin. Zellio Toppazzini, ject because these friends of ours |® U.S. Ambassy plane crashed near 
| the fourth member of the sonS of | are members of that large fraternity |Ottawa while flying Mr, Steinhardt 
Italy group, plays for the New York | which thinks that the taking of pills |t¢ New York. 
Rangers, Babando, Guidolin and|j, 9 substitute for the wearing of'a| One man prominent in government 
|Toppazzini all played for Boston | nat @ scarf or overshoes while out-|circles died far from Canada’s 
|Bruins at one time or another. of-doors during Cold weather. These |Shores. He was Alex Skeleton, 44, 
Fogolin A Holler Guy people are the ones you see dashing | assistant deputy minister of trade 
| Lee Fogolin, defenseman of the | down the street for a cup of coffee |and commerce and one of the coun- 
|Chicago Black Hawks, is one of the |in the mornings without bothering to/try’s foremost economists, who was 
|best holler guys in the N.H.L. The|Wear an overcoat. “It’s only a few|drowned in a yachting accident at 
burly rearguard can be heard all|feet”, they reason when you admon- |Lagos, Nigeria. He had been on loan 
over the ice yelling encouragement |ish them for their carelessness, |to a British Royal Commission study 
to his teammates. Even when skat-| These people who take pill@sand |ing Nigeria’s revenue system, 
|ing to the players bench after being | who consequently complain when | eR 
| relieved by alternate players, Fogo-|they get colds, are the ones who sit | 
|lin is constantly shouting, “Come on/|in drafts; who get over-heated play- | 
ig | gang! Let’s fight! Keep in there!” A | ing basketball or badminton and who | 
then go out-of-doors without first 
taking a shower and putting on dry | 
clothes; who wear a hat one day and | 
go without the next; who don’t both- 
er to wear rubbers; and who think 
sweaters were invented for the sole 
use of female movie stars. 

A cold is just nature’s way of tell- 
ing these people that they are not 
capable of looking after themselves. 


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(Lethbridge Herald) 


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“S \Lightest Player In N.H.L. 

Buddy O'Connor of the New York 
an | Rangers is the lightest player in the 
ip |N.H.L. The tiny New York center | 
This | 
is three pounds less than Doug Bent- 
|ley of Chicago, second lightest player 
in the League. O’Connor, the light- 
est and oldest player on the Rangers 
at 34 years of age, is also the team’s 


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TRY AND STOP ME! 


By BENNETT CERF 

Latest tale pinned on a well-known 
language assassin concerns his ses- 
sion with a handwriting expert at an 
exotic night club. “You write bold- 
ly”, she told him arehly “but I don’t 
think much of your punctuation.” 
“You don’t hey?” said the Holly- 
woodite angrily. “T'll have you know 
I haven't been late to a story con- 
ference in 10 years.” 2018 


THE CHRONICLE, CARBON, ALTA. 


OUR _COMPLETE SHORT STORY— 


THE HOPE CHEST : 


By LAURA KING 


———————— 


HB landlady was out, so the pro- 
prietress of the curio shop in the 
basement @ the old brownstone 
house let Marcia in to wait and found 
her a chair. It was a fragile Shera- 
ton, but the girl who perched rest- 
lessly on its edge was almost as frag- 
ile with an old-world delicacy which 
might have stepped out of her grand- 
mother’s generation, 
“You've been here long?” Marcia 
asked, attempting conversation. 


“Yes, but not in this particular 
basement,” 

“The landlady ... ?” began Mar- 
ca. 


“She always returns by dinnertime. 
You're welcome to wait. The shop 
doesn’t close until six.” 

As if to reassure-her, an old-fash- 
ioned clock struck five. Pressing a 
button, the proprietress lighted a 
number of lamps on shelves in the 
two front windows. Street lights, 
like giant fireflies, started to blink 
rhythmically across the winter dusk. 
Marcia stood up, 
late. Maybe I shouldn't stay.” 

“You want a room?” 

“I'm not quite sure. I have a room 
at the hotel.” 

“That sounds as if you're a new- 
eomer.” 

ANO™ 5.16 
months,” 

“Then it’s more than just a sight- 
seeing trip?” 

The curio lady's face was kind, not 
curious, Without realizing it, the 
girl began telling this chance ac- 
quaintance with the friendly eyes 
about Aunt Gert with whom she liv- 
ed in Virginia till she left for col- 
lege . . . about the mother she barely 
remembered . about the dreams 
which had brought her to New York. 
Then the words tumbled out. She 
could sing, but a girl needed money 
to be coached, 

“Aunt Gert, who was like a moth- 
er, went last winter,” she added 
slowly. 

“And your father?” 

Marcia answered, “He never came 
back from the first war.” 
“But you look such 

ateP?.. 6° 

Marcia nodded. 


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“Maybe she'll be’ 


three | 


Her Hope Chest 
Was Different. 


| what Se me, looking for a job.” 
| “What you need is a hope chest 
The words brought a flush to Mar- 
|cia’s cheeks. “He's gone. We had 
a quarrel and .. . well, it’s all over.” 
| The curio lady took a box of lacy 
ivory from the high shelf, touching 
jit as though it was a flower, “I didn’t 
}mean that sort of a hope chest,” she 
said, “I meant one like mine. My 
| father bought this for me, years 
;ago. It came from this very house.” 
“Oh!” There was a new light in 
|Marcia’s eyes. She leaned forward 
| to listen, 
| “There were two beautiful sisters 
living here before the first war, One 
was married, but they say both sis- 
jters loved the same man, and that 
| the husband went to Germany as 
a war correspondent because he 
|couldn’t decide between them. He 
|was killed, rumor says he exposed 
| himself needlessly, and eight months 
|after his death the wife gave birth to 
a baby daughter.” 


Marcia touched the casket with 
her fingers that trembled as she 
quickly drew them away, “You 
knew them?" she asked, 
| “Pleasantly enough to nod to them. 
|We moved in a different world, but 
I admired both girls and defended 
them when gossip started.” 

Marcia’s* blue eyes looked almost 

black in their intensity. ‘You were 
j telling me of the ivory box. Did it 
| belong to one! of them?” 
“Yes. My father bought it at auc- 
| tion when they sold the place. Years 
|later I found a letter under the lin- 
ing of the lid.” 

“A letter? To whom?” 

The curio lady looked at the girl 
intently, her eyes filling with com- 
|passion, She began gently, “If the 
boy you love found he really loved 


—Central Press Canadian. 


Samson lost his hair and his 
strength and something of the same 
sort has happened to Julius, the 12- 
pound, bald-headed eagle of Stanley 
Park, Vancouver, B.C. With his talons 
cut so that he could not attack 
people, he has lost inclination to at- 
tack anything and will retire to the 
top of his totem pole when seagulls 
crowd him out of fish dinners left for 
him by his keeper, 


Sask. Will Buy 
Gas, Aid Search 


REGINA.—In a move to encourage 
development of natural gas fields in 
Saskatchewan, the 
Power Corp. is prepared to negotiate 
purchase of gas wherever found in 
the province, providing it is found in 


someone else, could you stand it? sufficient quantity and the wells are 
|Bear it gallantly?” reasonably accessible, Hon. J. A. 
The girl's head lifted. “A man Darling, chairman, has announced. 


might find himself in love with some- 
one he hadn't known about until af- 
ter he was engaged—or married. If 
he tried to do the decent thing, it 
wouldn't hurt me half as much as if 
I knew he had faced it with cour- 
age.” 

Silently the curio lady opened the 
box and lifted out an envelope. She 
looked at it as if trying to make up| 
her rhind, then took out the letter 
and wordlessly handed the age-yel- 
lowed paper to Marcia, The girl let | 
her eyes run quickly through its 
short message. 

“Oh, it’s true, It’s true,” she cried 
|happily. A moment later she was 
|explaining, “My mother was Marcia 
Lane. This was her home, Aunt 
Gert told me of their life together 
here. At first I couldn’t bear to come 
and see it, a rooming house, But to- 
night I wanted to come here, .. to 
| follow them,” 


The Power Corporation will nego- 
tiate purchase either at the wellhead 
or brought out to a central gather- 
ing point in the gas field, Mr, Darling 
said, The gas will be used for power 
generation or distribution to consum- 
ers depending on the proximity of 
the gas field to populated centres. 

The price to 


be sufficiently high to be an incen- 
tive to the development of producing 
wells, 


At present Saskatchewan Power 
Corp. operates a generating plant at 
Unity which uses natural gas as fuel. 
The consumption of gas for 1949 was 
| 96,486,350 cu. ft. While complete 
figures are not yet available for 1950 
the consumption in January, 1950, 
was 65.5 per cert. greater than in 
January, 1949. 

The Department of Natural Re- 
sources, at the request of the Power 


The kind eyes of the curio lady) Corporation, is conducting tests in 
searched the girl’s face, then said,|the Lone Rock oil field southeast of 
|“Forgive me for bringing up the | Lloydminster to determine the extent 


scandal,” 


| “You mustn't mind,” the girl told 
|her, ‘Gossip has always followed | 
|my family. Before I was ten a girl | 
}at school told me how my father had | 
| run away and let himself be killed 
because he wasya coward, But now 
|I know he wasn't, His letter shows 
how fine he was. Listen...” 

She read aloud, “Loved. one, Be-| Proudly Marcia nodded. “He loved 
cause you have lived on this earth|her, said he would come back.” 
and looked at its beauty the world) 
is very dear to me. Have no fear 
that I shall be unduly reckless, If I 


of the gas reservoir in that area. 
The information obtained will be used 
by the Power Corporation to deter- 
mine the feasibility of installing a 
gas-powered generating plant near 
the gas wells at Lone Rock. 


|to know the letter was addressed to 
your mother?” 


4 . |the wastebasket. “You may keep 
{do not return in the flesh, I shall find | the letter, my dear,” she said. Then 
|you again, somehow. hearing the door above open, she 


Marcia looked up, her eyes flash- 
jing, “Knowing that, I shall be able 
| to dew vy find that job, I can When Marcia had left, the curio 
make up with Bob again because he | lady slowly tore into. tiny bits the 
| has that sort of love, too. I CAD » 2’ | envelope which carried the single 
| “You're ‘very sure, my dear? You | word “Gertrude” on its face. 

don't even need to see the envelope (Copyright Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate) 


PEGGY 


added, “There's the landlady new, if 
you still want to see her,” 


% 


AND THIS 15 SANDY SMITH HERB Ele 


BUT, MOM, I COMPLETELY 
FORGOT THAT I’D MADE TWO 
DATES FOR TONIGHT! THEY’LL 
BOTH BE INSANELY JEALOUS 
AND I’LL JUST SIT BACK 
AND ENJOY HAVING TWO MEN 
FIGHT FOR MY ATTENTION! 


SMITH? SAY 


~ 1 youre Nor THE 
DIDN'T WE PLAY 


HERB STANTON 


Saskatchewan | 


be paid cannot be} 
fixed, but it is intended that it will] 


| 
| 


Nodding, the curio lady folded the | 
yellowed envelope and let it™Slip into | 


| 


| 
| 


WESTERN 
BRIEFS 


Manning Sets Date 

EDMONTON.—Premier E. C. Man- 
ning announced that the tentative 
opening date for the next session of 
the Alberta legislature has been set 
for Feb, 22 


Annexation Urged 

DAUPHIN, Man. — The council of 
the Rural Municipality cf Dauphin 
has decided on action toward incor- 
poration within the town boundaries 
of five fringe areas—Crescent, Elm 
Park, Westmore, River Heights and 
Lakeview 


Turn Down Sunday Sport 
VANCOUVER. Sundays 
hockey, baseball, movies, horse rac- 
ing and open-doored taverns got 
thumbs down from Vancouver voters 
in a plebiscite — by 
nearly 10,000 votes. 


with 


Famed Gardens Owner Dies 

VICTORIA, B.C. — Mrs. R, P. 
Butchart, owner of the world famous 
Butchart sunken gardens, died at her 
home. She was $3, The gardens, 
fashioned around an old stone quarry 
at Tod Inlet, have been a tourist at- 
traction for many years. 


Sask. Farmers’ View 

SASKATOON.—The Saskatchewan 
farmers’ union wants the federal 
government to pay “not less than 25 
cents” a bushel additional on grain 
delivered under the five-year wheat 
pool arrangement, The union's an- 
nual. convention passed a resolution 
to that effect. 


Re-elected 

SASKATOON. — J. L. Phelps was 
re-elected president of the Saskatche- 
wan Farmers union for a_ second 
term, There was no opposition. Mrs. 
Elsie Hart, Saskatoon, was re-elected 
president of the women’s section, 
also by acclamation, 


William Whlter Dies 
CALGARY.—William Ernest Walt- 

er, 72, prominent in western Canada 

agricultural and colonization circles 


| died in hospital here Dc. 16. He was | 


formerly a grain buyer at Gilbert 
Plains, Grandview and Dauphin, Man. 
In 1904, he moved to Kuroki, Sask., 
and later to Saskatoon. 


MILLION DOLLAR 
HOSPITAL FOR 


MANITOBA INDIANS 


THE PAS, Man.—Construction of 
a $1,000,000 hospital serving 
eastern section of northern Manitoba 
will be built at Norway House, In- 
dian Affairs officials announced, 

Eric Law, superintendent of Indian 
Affairs in the area, said actual con- 
struction will start this coming year 
and finish likely in 1952 with ma- 
terials brought from Winnipeg by 
boat, 

The hospital is the largest project 


| so far in a scheme of extended medi- 


cal services for the district Indians. 
Five outpost nursing stations already 
have been constructed or set up. 


Blames Most Accidents 
On Too Much Thinking 


WINNIPEG. F. S. Innes, secre- 
tary of the Automotive Trades Asso- 
ciation here, said that people who 
think too much are the chief causes 
of traffic accidents 

finnes said at a luncheon meeting 
that he had found professors the 
worst offenders “when it comes to 
having something else on their mind 
beside their driving.” 

He said doctors are second worst, 
adding: ‘When I ran a service sta- 
tion, I found doctors great on pre- 
occupation, One man never went 
more than three days without scrap-| 
ing a fender.” 


a majority of | 


the | 


‘Shoulders Blame 


+ f 


—Central 
John 
railway telegraph operator, said his 
failure to comply with railway regu- 
lations in transmission of train orders 


Press Canadian, 


Albert Atherton, 22-year-old 


jresulted in the Nov, 21 Canoe river 
train wreck which caused the death 
}of 21 persons and injured scores of 
jothers. The admission came during 
the board of transport commission- 
jers’ inquiry at Edmonton, Alberta, 
jinto the head-on collision between a 
troop train and a passenger train, 
|The erash occurred on a mountain 
}curve on the Canadian National Rail- 
}way’s main line through the Rocky 
Mountains in northern British Colum- 
| bia, 8312 miles west of Edmonton, 

| 
| 
| 


Delay In Pension 
Plan Seen 


EDMONTON.—Old = ge pensions in 
Alberta will not be extended until 
April 1, 1952, Hon. Dr. W. W. Cross, 
;minister of welfare, announced. 

Dr. Cross said the present pension 
structure will remain in force next 
| year as no increase in either the pro- 


|vincial government’s share of the 
| basic $40 a month pension or the 


supplementary allowance paid by the 
province is planned, 

The Dominion government recent- 
ly suggested that old age pensions to 
persons over 70 years of age should 
be paid entirely from the federal 
j treasury with the provinces sharing 


half the cost of pensions to needy 
persons between 65 and 69. 

“However,” Dr. Cross explained, 
“constitutional amendments neces- 
sary to establish this system could 
not be completed in Ottawa until 
1952 at the earliest.” 

“Alberta, therefore, would not be 


able to institute the new pension plan 
before April 1, 1952, the beginning 
of the fiscal year,” he said. 


‘Princess Given 


'Gold Necklace 


ATHENS, Princess Eliza- 
jbeth received a necklace of ancient 
'gold coins from the time of Alexan- 
der the Great, 

It was presented to her by Sopho- 
cles Venizelos, Greek Prime Minister, 
on behalf of the Greek government, 
| The centrepiece was a coin bear- 
jing the head of Philip ILof Macedon, 
father of Alexander, He struck it in 
{memory of his father after he suc- 
ceeded to the throne in 336 B.C, 
| The presentation was made aboard 
jthe frigate Surprise, where Princess 
Elizabeth and her husband the Duke 
of Edinburgh gave a cocktail party. 
King Paul and Queen Frederika of 
Greece were among the guests, 


Greece, 


| 
| 


|Think Right—Eat Right—Live Right 


“WAKE UP YOUR 
LIVER BILE— 


Without Calomel — And You'll Jump Out of 
Bed in the Morning Rarin’ to Go 

The liver should pour out about 2 pints of 

bile juice into your digestive tract every day: 

If this bile is not flowing freely, your food may 

not digest. It may just decay in the digestive 

tract, Then gas bloats up your stomach, You 


DID YOU KNOW — ! 

A rope that will hold 105 pounds | 
is capable of actually holding about | 
is divided | 


2913 


200 pounds if the weight 
on both its ends. 


NOTHING LIKE 
YOU WHEN YGOT 
BEHIND ME 
FOR THAT 
TOUCHDOWN 


KABITZKI TACKLED 
MOOSE CONDIT. 
ONLY HE DIDN’T 
HAVE THE BALL «++ 
you pip! say, 
YOU WERE 
TerRiric! 


get constipated, You feel sour, sunk and the 
world looks punk, 

lt takes those mild, gentle Carter's Little 
Liver Pills to get these 2 pints of bile lowe 
ing freely to make you feel ‘up and up." 
Get a package today. Mflective in making 
bile flow freely, Ask for Carter's Little Lives 
Pills, 85¢ at any drugstore. 


—By Chuck Thurston 


WHEN YOU TWO HEFOES FINISH 
CLUBBING EACH OTHER WITH 


ROSEBUDS, YOU'LL FIND 


SANDWICHES ANC MILI IN THE 
KITCHEN...IM GOING To 


BED! 


Thursday, January 11, 1951 


THE 1951 PONTIAC marks its silver anniversary with many new style changes and mechanical 
improvements, It also offers a choice of two fully automatic transmissions — Powerglide, introduced 
in Canada this year by GM, and available on the Fleetleader Deluxe; and the famed Hydra-Matic 
Drive, available on the Chieftain and Streamliner Series. Both automatic transmissions are avail- 
able as an option at extra cost. Pontiac for 1951 is available in 24 models, beginning at the lowest 
price range. Pontiac also introduces its Catalina, a hard top convertible which combines smartness 


and wide visibility with safety and driving comfort. Shown above is the 1951 Pontiac Chieftain 
Deluxe four-door sedan. 


Tie you place with mon like these 
T The Skilled 


q/ Soldier “Tadesman’ 
| 


of the R.C.E.M.E. 


| The workshops of the Royal Canadian Electrical 
1 | and Mechanical Engineers are expanding 
rapidly — in step with the growth of the Canadian 
Army Active Force. The men of the R.C.E.M.E. 

are doing their part to make Canada strong. 


There is an urgent need for skilled tradesmen to 
man the workshops of this vitally important 
corps of “soldier-tradesmen’’. Skilled craftsmen 
are required to fill the posts of automotive 
mechanics, fitters, toolmakers, radar and radio 
technicians, instrument makers, welders, 
watchmakers, machinists and other key jobs. 

If you qualify as a skilled tradesman, 

there’s a place for you in the R.C.E.M.E. 

You can serve now — when Canada 

needs you — as an expert 

“soldier-tradesman”, 


Carbon Chronicle, Carbon, Alberta 


ALY.P.A. Elects Officers 


The Anglican Young People’s 
Association elected officers for 
1951 at a meeting held at the 
vicarage Tuesday evening. Those 
named to office are as follows: 

President, Howard Hunt. 

Vice-Pres., Mrs. Wilf Skerry. 

Secretary, Margaret Schmierer 

‘Treasurer, Anna Carlson. 

The new officers will be instal- 
led at the Evensong service in 
the Anglican Church on Sunday, 
January 28. 

Howard Hunt, Anna Carlson 
and Margaret Schmierer were ap- 
pointed delegates to attend the 
A.Y.P.A. presidents’ conference 
in Calgary January 20. 


ey ces 


Members of the Girls’ Club met 
Tuesday evening atthe home of 
Mrs. Jack Barnes for their annual 
meeting and election of officers. 
The following were named to of- 
fice for the ensuing year: ~ 

Margaret Scnmierer, president 

Nova Buyer, vice president. 

Lynn McCracken, secretary. 

Doreen Hay, treasurer. 

Loretta Harsch, publicity. 

Interesting ff_lms on three top- 
ics were shown by Mrs. S. Hay’ 


S.F. Torrance Named 
Returning Officer 


S.F. Torrance was appoihted | 


Number 2; Page 8 


For TRAVEL INFORMATION 
— CALL — 


Carbon Bus Line 
DOUG PROWSE 


Proprietor 


CARBON THEATRE 


Jan, 11—Abilene Town. 

Jan. 18 Miracle on 34th Street. 
Jan. 25—Shaggy. 

Feb. 1—Hello, Frisco, Hello. 


Feb. 8—The Count of Monte 
Cristo. 


HARRY HUNT 
Draying 


Soft Water Hauling 
Res. Phone §2 


Andy Bell 


DRAYING 


General Trucking 


5. F. TORRANCE 


returning officer for the Village} 


of Carbon at the January meet-| 
ing of the council, held in the| 
village office Tuesday afternoon, | 


January 9. Two by-laws concern- 
the sale of lots were given third 
reading. 

A requisition will be made to 
the provincial director of assess- 
ments for assessing of al) lands, 
buildings and improvements in 
the village, the assessment to take 
affect in 1952. 

The general meeting of rate- 
payers of the Village of Carbon 
will be held February 12. Nomi- 
nation day for councilor is Feb- 
ruary 19 and election day is Feb- 
ruary 26 Mayor Ernest Fox is 
the retiring councilor. 


INSURANCE 
ALL CLASSES 


FARM MORTGAGE 
LOANS 


REAL ESTATE AGENT 


Clerk for Auctioneer 


WHAT IS SACA - PELO? 
Saba-Pelo is the most remarkable 
scientific discovery of the age, 
which will kill the roots of all 
superfluous hair. Saca-Pelo con- 
tains no drug or chemical, and 
can be applied in the privacy 
of your own home or in 
LOR-BEER LABORATORIES 
|679 Granville St., Vancouver, B.C. 


FREE GERMINATION TESTS 


Frost will cause low germination 
in seed grain, particularly oats 
and barley. Arrange free germin- 
ation tests through your Alberta 
Pacific Agent. 


a 


Two Carloads Of 


Canadian Cement 


now in stock 


Get Your Supply NOW 


It won't be available 
in the spring 


To enlist in 
the R.C.E.M.E. you must: 
1, Be a Canadian citizen or British subject 
2. Be between 17 and 40 years of age. 
3. Be single. 
4. Meet Army test requirements. 
5. Volunteer for service anywhere, 
REPORT RIGHT AWAY TO: 
No. 10 Personnel Depot, Currie Barracks, 


CALGARY, Alta. 


Headquarters, Western Command, 


Kingsway Ave., EDMONTON, Alta. 
A2978-AYV 


Help make 
Canada strong 


Hl 
yo CONADIAN ARMY ACTIVE FORCE gM’ 


For sparkling entertainment, listen to “The Voice of the Army” — Wednesday evenings — Dominion Network 


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J. Buchner, manager